Several people have complained that this nomenclature makes it impossible for
them to retrieve these files by FTP from the archieve at MIT. See message
below:
How are other people dealing with this??
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> > There's a problem at that site. Some of the file names have the slash
> > character ('/') in them, and are difficult to retrieve via anonymous
> > FTP from some systems. There are actually two files there,
> > powerlines-cancer-FAQ/Part1 and powerlines-cancer-FAQ/Part1. Good
> > luck!
You replied:
> As maintainer of this FAQ, I was not aware of this problem. The FAQ is in
> parts because many newsreaders cannot handle posts longer than 32K. This
> is a standard way of marking part
>
> 1) What systems have problems with '/', and are there any other special
> characters that are a problem?
Many UNIX systems have trouble with a '/' character in a file name,
as the '/' is used (by default) as the separator for directories
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john (jmoulder@its.mcw.edu)
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